The first part is of the route is next to a tar road.  In El Cubo de la Tierra, we stopped at a bar for a short break. With Mike’s beer, he received a saucer of pork crackling. After a lot of dust and sweat – it’s delicious. The tar disappeared and made way to

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While cycling in the immense heat, I had this fantasy of doing the cycle in a cooler month. Leaving Fuenterroble, I changed my mind. It was freezing. We stopped to add all our clothes we had, rain jackets, buffs covering our ears, t-shirts and even socks as gloves. After a half hour’s cycle we passed

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As we left the hotel with our bikes, Mike realised he had left his helmet and gloves inside as the door slammed shut behind us. We were the only guests with no staff on site. I found a street sweeper originally from Malagascar who knew the neighbour who knew the owners, who said he would

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So as we waved the less beautiful town of Carcabosa farewell, the band stops playing. I wondered if it was for us? Loud all consuming music from when we arrived until 07:45am. We still don’t understand what type of festival demands such a celebration but all we know it was a “muchos fiesta”. With the

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So we set off with the sun coming up, all beautiful and everything. I read up about the challenges of the Via De La Plata: bulls, dogs and snakes. (For that reason, I grabbed the black panniers and gave Mike the red ones)  Today, I realised, the modern version of Bull Fighters are Spanish Mountain

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We stayed at the Hotel AH Ágora Cáceres The reason we booked the hotel is that they were more than happy to receive our rental bikes and store our luggage until a courier came to collect it. The rooms were great (although it had that large “unemotional” hotel look) and the staff very friendly and helpful.

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